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 One of my favorite pictures AND one of our favorite places. Sunset in Key West is celebration time. Locals and tourists alike gather at various watering holes near the beach to toast the end of another day and generally just have a good time. This picture was taken from the Key West Naval Air Station campground.
 In October of 1996 a late season hurricane (Opal) delayed our return to the North Florida Gulf coast. This is the beach side of a small motel a few blocks from our RV park after it was hit with a 17 foot wall of water. Roof and walls simply torn right off. It was the second time that year that the area had been hit by a hurricane, a very unusual occurrence. It took nearly two years to cleanup and rebuild but today you would never know there had been a storm.
 The Key West Naval Air Station overflow campground sits right off the ramp of an old Sea Plane base. One lazy afternoon I was sitting out front of our trailer watching the local RC Airplane club fly their planes. The prevailing wind made it necessary for the planes to fly over the campers on their approach to landing. I watched this one as it circled behind me until I lost site of it, and then I heard a sickening "thud". At first I was down right mad to find it embedded in my windshield but after thinking about what, or worse, who it could have hit I cooled off.
 Not much to say about this beautiful creature. Its a White Heron and the picture was taken off of an unused dock at the Coast Guard station in Key West.
 A Brown Pelican. Carole and I both have a thing about pelicans. She collects them. Wood carvings, ceramics, pewter and that sort of thing. Me, I just photograph them and watch them. I can sit by the ocean and watch them fish and fly formation for hours. While not particularly aerodynamic its comical to watch this guy stretch out his neck and dive into the water. And more times than not he comes up with a fish. And its pure pleasure to watch two or more of them flying formation. If the bald eagle is a monarch among birds then the Pelican is ... well, sort of like a refined English butler.
 Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys
 The Fox Run RV park is a small park where the lots are privately owned. Its located six miles east of Destin, Florida and two blocks north of the Gulf of Mexico where we usually spend part of each winter. Located about 20 miles east of where our two boys live it's where we call home for part of the year.
 Styrofoam floats are used to mark lobster trap locations. Each one will have a license number carved in it and then painted to help the fisherman find his traps. During storms they will break loose and find their way to the beaches. Tourists and residents will pick them up on their morning walks. This property owner has used them to decorate his yard in the older section of Key West
 Another Key West Sunset. I never tire of them.
 Eight or ten of us were out biking on the Key West Naval Air Station near the Atlantic Ocean when we ran across this eagle on an old lighting structure. He made no attempt to fly off but he never did take his eye off of us. I would have like to see him take to the air but it was not to happen this day.
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